> In fifteen years from now such cars will look as quaint as the cars from the 1980s with full LED dashes: Those are vacuum fluorescent displays and not LEDs,

> In fifteen years from now such cars will look as quaint as the cars from the 1980s with full LED dashes: Those are vacuum fluorescent displays and not LEDs, and were used in new vehicles (at least by Ford) until the early 2000s. They are still a great choice for vehicle instrument panels and are commonly used for aftermarket retrofit units (see for example http://www.parrautomotive.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=product/product_id=2711/category_id=1255/home_id=1255/mode=prod/prd2711.htm http://www.parrautomotive.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=product/p...)